It doesn’t matter how long it takes to get to your destination. What matters is how determined and motivated you are to reach it and become the happy and successful person who you were always meant to be. Conversational Awareness ** The skill of being able to pay attention to various elements of a conversation If we see each other in our dreams, let’s goof around a little bit, pretend like we don’t know each other.” — Ted Lasso, Season 1 Episode 1: “Pilot”

In Ted’s case, a why question may have sparked a conversation about the deeper meaning or purpose behind Ted’s dart game. For example, Ted may play darts because the game reminds him of spending “every Sunday afternoon at a sports bar with [his] father” or because he likes to win. Either of these answers may have offered Rupert valuable information about what to do next.

Greatest Admission of Defeat

I think that you might be so sure that you’re one in a million, that sometimes you forget that out there you’re just one in 11.” — Ted Lasso, Season 1 Episode 2: “Biscuits” Sports for a Dyspeptic Race", Intimate With Walt: Whitmans Conversataions With Horace Traubel, p. 261

Don’t Do Knowledge Management ** You respond to business problems & develop business opportunities using KM tools Regardless of who originally said, “Be curious, not judgmental,” the quote should guide all of our writing. Be curious about the information you find online. Don’t take everything you see at face value. Dig deeper. Ask questions. Your writing will benefit immensely as a result.Huawei Transforms a Global Conference with a Knowledge Market How to make a conference more participatory If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere — probably more than the rest of the world combined. Yes, curiosity is listening intently, listening deeply, listening beyond the words. Judgement is filling in the gaps, not questioning anything, focussing on the words alone. I like the scientific spirit – the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine – it always keeps the way beyond open – always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake – after a wrong guess.” The New Science of Building Great Teams ** 35% of variation in team performance is accounted for by the amount of face-to-face communication